SweetSpotBT

The aim of this repository is to provide details of the data sets and code used in the related research titled The Sweet Spot of Bound Tightening for Topology Optimization.

Data Description

The following files are included in this repository:

• case118Blumsack.m: Contains all the network data information.
• BigM.csv: Includes the initial large constants (Big M values) used for each line.
• DemandProfiles.csv: Contains the 300 demand profiles used in the study.

Developed by

• Salvador Pineda (spineda@uma.es) - GitHub: salvapineda
• Juan Miguel Morales (juan.morales@uma.es) - GitHub: juanmi82mg

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (AEI/10.13039/501100011033) through project PID2023-148291NB-I00.

How to cite the repo and the paper?

If you want to cite the related paper or this repository, please use the following bib entries:

• Article:

@article{Pineda2025,
  author  = {Pineda, S. and Morales, J. M.},
  title   = {The Sweet Spot of Bound Tightening for Topology Optimization},
  journal = {arXiv preprint},
  year    = {2025},
  eprint  = {arXiv:2507.16496}
}

• Repository:

@misc{SweetSpotBT2025,
  author       = {Salvador Pineda and Juan Miguel Morales},
  year         = {2025},
  title        = {SweetSpotBT},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/groupoasys/SweetSpotBT}}
}

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License

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